sidewalks
Denver Is Missing Sidewalks on More Than a Quarter of Its Streets
We know that Denver lacks sidewalks to an embarrassing degree for a modern American city, but until recently we didn't have a grasp on how bad it was.
December 20, 2016
DPW and CDOT Will Build Much-Needed Sidewalks on Hampden and Havana
If you’re walking to catch a bus, go shopping, or get to school, Denver’s golf courses can make you feel like a second-class citizen. That’s because the streets abutting golf courses are often missing sidewalks — so you end up walking on a makeshift dirt path in between manicured greens and high-speed traffic. At John F. Kennedy Golf … Continued
September 19, 2016
Denver, Where Golfing Is More Important Than Walking
Along Sheridan Boulevard, next to the immaculately manicured Willis Case Golf Course in Berkeley, is a strip of dirt and shrubs, inches away from speeding traffic, that Denver Parks and Recreation expects people to use as a sidewalk. Walking isn’t much better on the other side of the street, where the sidewalk is either nonexistent or just a few feet … Continued
September 6, 2016
Eyes on the Street: Colorado Boulevard Gets a New (Obstructed) Sidewalk
Last month Streetsblog published a photo of the east side of Colorado Boulevard, where a half-mile strip of overgrown jungle grass was posing as a sidewalk. Bus stops with no pedestrian infrastructure abutted Park Hill Golf Club, a private course with immaculate walking and driving paths just a few feet away from the public right … Continued
August 25, 2016
Denver Council Weighs Three Options to Fix Broken Sidewalk Network
Yesterday the City Council finally dug into the question of how to complete Denver’s patchwork sidewalk network. Sidewalk construction and maintenance currently falls entirely on individual property owners. It’s a policy designed to fail, with many people unable to afford sidewalks, and the quality of the pedestrian environment suffering as a result. People pay with their lives. … Continued
August 11, 2016
Help Map Denver’s Walkability and Win $1,000 for Your Neighborhood
Denver is in dire need of sidewalks and crosswalks that make walking safe and easy instead of daunting and dangerous. Advocates are pressing the City Council to deliver on a complete sidewalk network, and council members are listening. One of the barriers to better walking infrastructure is the lack of data. There’s no complete inventory mapping the state … Continued
May 27, 2016
#StreetFail: Sad Bus Stop Near RTD’s New A-Line
Here’s a #StreetFail that gets at how much progress Denver still needs to make to become a great transit city. It’s a sad bus stop at 40th and Fillmore in Elyria Swansea, across the street from Bruce Randolph School, on a side of the road with no sidewalks. Happy Walk to School Day, kids! Because RTD and … Continued
May 4, 2016
Denver City Council Looks to Create Fund for a Complete Sidewalk Network
The Denver City Council is inching closer to a long-term fix for the city’s antiquated sidewalk policies, which have led to shoddy walking infrastructure and major gaps in the sidewalk network. City Councilman Paul Kashmann, who heads the Sidewalk Working Group, is looking to establish a sidewalk fund. The question is where the money will come from. Elected officials questioned planners from … Continued
April 28, 2016
Now It’s Up to City Council to Solve Denver’s Sidewalk Woes
After three rounds of testimony from people demanding decent sidewalks, the City Council’s Sidewalk Working Group will try to fix the dysfunctional policies that have contributed to Denver’s Swiss cheese network of crumbling sidewalks. At least one in four of all trips in Denver are less than one mile, according to the Denver Regional Council of Governments — those are trips that people can walk … Continued
April 1, 2016
Wheelchair Users to City Council: We Need Sidewalks to Live Life
Stewart Tucker Lundy uses a wheelchair to travel Denver’s streets. On Wednesday, he wanted the City Council to understand how shoddy, slippery, and altogether nonexistent sidewalks affect him and others who can’t walk, so he described his plight from a windshield perspective. He asked council members to recall last week, when a rockslide closed part of I-70 in Glenwood Canyon. … Continued
February 25, 2016